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// Chapter 1 
// Story: The Dream 
// by StelsunDarkstar 
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7:30pm

Twilight Sparkle is the current ruler of Equestria. This sure was a difficult job that only the best characters can handle. Luna, Celestia, Cadance, Shining, Flurry, Novo, Thorax. All those rulers.. Their job as rulers is not as easy as it looks, but still, they somehow manage to do their job with almost no problem.
Twilight however, was the ruler of Equestria, a big big country, not like Thorax or Cadance's family, who had only one small castle, or an entire empire.

"Hey, Twilight!!"

"HUH?!" Twilight jumped out of her throne. She was falling asleep. Thank the stars that Spike woke her up in time, otherwise she would have fallen from the throne. "What's the matter, Spike?" Twilight said as she yawned.

"Well, uh, it's nothing special. It's just that.. it's getting late, and you should get sleep. So tomorrow you will be ready for your morning duties!" The dragon said with a smile.

"Aw thanks, Spike! I'm really proud to have you as my Royal advisor." Twilight said to her friend with a tired voice. Then, she headed to her bedroom, to get some rest.

But then.. she realized something. The sun was down, but it was still there.. The moon wasn't up!
Twilight clearly forgot that Celestia and Luna aren't in charge anymore, and that she's the one who needs to lower the sun and raise the moon. She teleported herself on one of the balconies, to get better view of the sun and a better place of raising the moon.
The queen looked around, many creatures were waiting to see the moon being raised from the new Queen. All of them looked curious to see what's exactly gonna happend. Is Twilight gonna fail on raising the moon all by herself? Or.. not?

Twilight was nervous. She was sweating from the little stress she had for today. Then she sighed, closed her purple eyes and focused on her 'Moon-raising Spell'. It was obviously a difficult spell to cast, but still, it was a really REALLY important one.

One, two, three... four..

After Twilight opened her eyes, she sighed in relief. The big shiny moon was far far away in the sky. It filled the streets and forests with the magical moonlight that every nightbird loved.

"Oh," The tired queen looked at the moon, with a slight smile on her face. "that was unexpectedly easy! Oh well, time to go to bed now." Then the alicorn headed again to her bedroom, where she was going in the first place.

7:59pm

When she got there, her bed was already done for her. The queen felt pleased about that.
Finally, she crashed on her cozy bed and wrapped herself with the fluffy sheets. Finally the time to get some real sleep.
But.. something still bothered her.

Someone was banging on the window, it was dark so who could it be at that time?
Twilight opened the window and.. it was another one of those.. 'crazy fans' of hers. Even tho she, as a queen had to be patient with those, she still had that annoying feeling inside.
The crazy fans, like, the 'really' crazy ones were the most annoying out of every ones.

"Ugh, i just hope that this will be the last time i'll be shooing away those... fans.." Twilight thought to herself and layed down in her bed again, falling asleep in the process.

The begining of her dream was nothing out of the ordinary. This dream was more like a memory in repeat. It was her and her best friends, singing the last song that they sang together in a year. Ah, the good memories.. But still, this was a dream, so this specific scene in her memory-dream appeared a little more.. wholesome than it already looked before. It wasn't something creepy or anything, but it was still something. An ordinary wholesome dream! What more can anybody wants than that?

Then Twilight remembered that sense she is infact the current Equestria ruler, and that she's even more powerful, it would be possible that she might be able to travel between dreams. Just like Luna did!
When she got in Pinkie's dream she noticed that the dream looked familiar.. It was like a memory from when she was an ordinary unicorn. And then, Twilight decided to get closer to hear the conversation between Pinkie and 'Past!Twilight'.

"Oh, hey Twilight! Have you seen Rainbow Dash anywhere?"

That sentence surprised the current Twilight alot. It did happend, but that sentence was a little bit different. It was another 'memory-like' dream.
Twilight wasn't concerned that Pinkie was having a memory-dream too, because it's really been a while sence she lastly saw her friends.
But now, Twilight had to teleport herself into another dream, to make sure that things are alright and there's no nightmares. Her horn shined once more. She teleported herself in the dream void, where she could see all dreams that exist right now.

"Oh, there's so many dreams!" Twilight's eyes shined. "And! Thank the stars that there's no sigh of nightmares today!" The alicorn giggled to herself. There really was no sigh of any nightmare. "Hey, let's take a look at Flurry's dream! I haven't checked on her in a while.. It won't be bad if i visit her in her dreams, right?"

The queen teleported herself in her niece's dream. It was an endless walk in a crystal cave. When Twilight decided to talk to Flurry, she teleported herself infront of her and interrupted her walk. Flurry Heart was clearly surprised to see her aunt in her dream.

"Oh, aunt Twilight?" The crystal princess asked. "What are you doing here? How did you got here? And.. how did you know that i was here in the first place..?"

Twilight Sparkle laughed cheerfully.
"It's a pretty short story if you ask me!" Twilight said. "Pretty much i decided to visit you in your dreams, nothing bad."

Flurry's eyes got wider. She didn't even realized until now that she was dreaming. That was a pretty common thing to happend when you fell asleep and start dreaming. You forget what's reality and what's not, and that's exactly what happend to Flurry Heart right now.
"O-oh.." The alicorn teen felt a little akward. "Man, i forgot that this is a dream.. And a pretty beautiful one to be honest!" 

"Yeah." Twilight agreed. "Now, i need to go and make sure there's no nightmares anywhere!" The alicorn queen looked at the ceiling, where a night-sky themed portal was probably waiting for her to enter. Then she looked back at her dear niece and hugged her. "It was nice to see you, Flurry."

"It was great to see you too, auntie!"

Then Twilight let her go. Flurry continued with her walking thrue the crystal cave, until she got lost from Twilight's sight. Twilight waved at the crystal princess for goodbye and entered the portal.

Then the whole world around Twilight became dark, dark as the space. Only the little dots, resebling stars were giving a little light in the seemingly endless void. The queen felt a little confused, because she didn't find any dreams, good or not.

Then Twilight gasped when she heard a sudden noice. It was her morning alarm. It was morning already and she had to raise the sun.
The queen yawned and walked to the bathroom, to wash her face and use the bathroom in general.

"Maybe," She yawned again. "it won't be a bad idea if i take a quick shower.. That won't cost me anything, i guess."

5:30am

After ten minutes of taking a shower, Twilight got out of the bathtub and headed to the sink, to brush her teeth. She couldn't see her reflection, because the mirror was steamy. The tired alicorn decided to wipe the mirror, so she could see herself better.
But when she did wiped the mirror.. there was something different about her. Her hairstyle has changed a little. It was shorter that before, and her face looked alot younger.

"Huh? What's all of this?"